Sharks In The Pass: Scuba Diving in French Polynesia and Easter Island

How does it feel to be surrounded by hundreds of hungry sharks in the fast flowing currents in the narrow channels of the coral atolls of the South Pacific?Brian Clargo has been a diver for over fifty years and with his wife Yolanda, has dived more than 1,300 times in the world’s best dive sites including the Antarctic, the Red Sea, the South Pacific, the Mediterranean, South Africa, Iceland and the temperate waters around the UK. He has dived with most varieties of sharks and other aggressive marine creatures as an underwater photographer and has many photographs published in his books and diving magazines. This book is the photographic record of three expeditions to the South Pacific specifically undertaken to dive with sharks in the passes of the coral atolls and describes in detail the issues encountered when diving in very fast currents and the interactions with large, agile and fearless predators when survival itself plays a part. Taking photographs in this environment is extremely challenging.This book describes each major pass and the sharks encountered in great detail:· The expeditions with 190 photographs including 90 underwater, showing every activity involved.· Several shark specieswith 49 original photographs taken by the author during the dives.· 47 maps and diagrams showing the atolls, the passes and dive sites in detail.· The details and locations of the dives with log details.· A section with photographs of 41 reef fishes found on the outreefs and in wrasse holes.The reader will find out what it is like to dive in these beautiful places with their sometimes manic underwater world. Read more